Why I don't have a critique group

 I know almost all writers have one. I SHOULD have one. I probably need one.  I'd love to meet once a month or a week at a coffee shop and chew the fat and critique work. I've had beta readers and critique partners over the years, but no one that's really hung around. It's not that I don't like to critique - and I'm pretty good at it, to be honest. I've had crit partners that went on to big, fancy MFA programs and they told me that those teachers were telling them all the same things I did. I know what I'm doing when it comes to critting.

There's just one problem: I don't have the time.

That sounds like a totally selfish cop-out, I know. And it's summer, so I probably COULD find the time now, but then I'd have to abandon the group in the Fall and that's not fair. But between grad school and now my full-time job, and my son's various extracurricular activities and my own writing, there's just NO time left to read other people's work and critique it. I WOULD like to find another partner, maybe two, because I might be able to handle one or two people's work, but I don't want to be that person who takes and doesn't give.  When I ask for someone to read for me, it's usually with the understanding that I will do what I can, but my time is extremely limited. And I hate doing that.  So I guess I'm just going to have to suck it up for another year.

There's only three more semesters of grad school, there's only three more semesters of grad school...